I went to Minneapolis on Thursday night for a Friday interview. I stayed in the very nice Best Western hotel downtown. I walked in to the interview at 1pm. It went fine (but still don't know the final outcome). Afterwards, I discovered that the hotel was full so I decided to go to the hostel (rather than spending $300 for another hotel room downtown).
Meanwhile I met up with Mattie and we walked together to the hostel (which was a lot further than it looked on the map). The hostel looked nice enough until I saw my room, which had 14 other beds in it. It was all they had available. There was only one bathroom. The night before I was staying in a palace with 2 TVs, a living room and massive bed. The next night, I was sleeping in an attic. It was $28 for a camino refuge-type accommodation. It's really annoying that there is nothing in between. There is either a really nice hotel downtown for $200 or a dirty attic. They don't have anything like a B&B.
We then walked around Minneapolis for a while, chatted and stopped off at a cafe in a theatre that Mattie often goes to. The photo above is the view from the 5th floor of the building. It is the Mississippi river. After that I had dinner in a Greek restaurant with Mattie's parents. I haven't had much Greek food before and it was pretty good.
I went back to the hostel early to get some sleep as I had to get up at 5am to go to Duluth the next day.
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